It is impossible to look at French art in the nineteenth century without examining what is known as the Institut Nationale des Sciences et des Arts, referred to simply as the Institut (Institute), and ...

In 2019, a reinterpreted version of the Mona Lisa painted by French pop-street artist Jean-Baptiste Launay, better known as Jisbar, floated more than 20 miles above Earth’s surface for over an ...

you won’t want to miss “The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux,” a knockout exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The curators—James David Draper of the Metropolitan and Edouard Pa ...

The artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze was born 300 years ago: to celebrate this anniversary, and bring this unjustly forgotten ...

Jean Baptiste Greuze was a French painter best known for his portraits, genre scenes, and history paintings. Greuze’s work was known for having sentimental and sometimes titillating subject matter, as ...

The work also added to traditions in European art of equating slavery with Black racial identity, displaying people vanquished by conquering powers, and depicting Black women as exotic and ...